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A dedication to the guild


Alexandrina MacDonald cut the birthday cake to mark 125 years of the Church of Scotland Guild. t49alexandrina1no A


LEXANDRINA Mac-    


-            1945.


And the subsequent involve- ment in the work of the church


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was to signal the beginning of a 67-year membership of the Church of Scotland Guild that shows no sign of stopping any time soon. To mark the 125th anniver- sary of the guild in 2012, Mrs MacDonald was asked to cut the birthday cake at a re- cent Songs of Praise event in Glencruitten Church Centre,


because of her long associa- tion with the organisation. Coincidentally, she was also born in the same year the Oban guild was formed in 1923.


The former nurse and honor- ary sheriff told West Coast Review: ‘I joined the Ardchat- tan guild in 1945 and then the Oban branch when I moved


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